Epitaph

IGCyr105100

Trismegistos ID: 738574

Source Description

Repository

Cyrene Museum, inv. number unknown.

Support

White marble tapering stele with plain moulding on top on three sides, chipped of at the upper left angle (0.375; 1.19;0.28).

Layout

Inscribed on the face (0.345 to 0.37; 1.125;0.24 to 0.28) in two lines.

Letters

0.04; symmetrical nu, slanting sigma, widely open upsilon.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Third century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Found before 1960 at Cyrene , presumably from an undetermined Necropolis .

Later recorded Location

Seen by D. Morelli in 1960 in Shahat : outside the Casa Parisi , which is part of the Cyrene Museum .

Last recorded Location

Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1979 at the same place.

Text constituted from

Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

Morelli in SECir , 261 (no image).

Text

Ἀνδροκλῆς Νεύσσω

Apparatus

French translation

Androklès fils de Neussos.

English translation

Androkles son of Neussos.

Italian translation

Androkles figlio di Neussos.

Arabic translation

أندروكليس بن نيوسوس

Commentary

The position of the stele, partly hidden by other stones, forbade to make a photograph.

The name Νεῦσσος, from the dialectal form of the word 'nestling', is not quite uncommon at Cyrene.

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